I was born in 1971, in the city of Brasília, which is where I lived when these diaries were written. Prior to that I had lived in Mexico, Brasília, Goiânia and Anápolis… These have been translated from Portuguese by me. I was 12 years old when I started writing them, after reading Anne Frank’s diaries, the same age my son is now in May 2012. I suppose this is my legacy, along with the photos I’ve taken. There is an earlier diary which I haven’t translated, but I have taken photos and uploaded here and here. + Wayback Machine internet archive.
BSB 14/12/1984 Friday
I’m really very forgetful. The other day (I think Tuesday) I went out and was chatting with Vivi under the I block and she told me Well had started smoking weed again ages ago… I thought he had stopped. It explains why he was so odd last Sunday I saw him.
This morning my mum talked to me and said they have liked each other since March and it was silly of her not to tell me (NOTE: I walked on my mum and her friend having sex in her bedroom the day before!!!! She was very stressed out about it). He lives in Goiânia and is married. He travels to Brasília often and stays in our flat, to save money. When they realised they liked each other they decided he shouldn’t come here anymore (this was in May). Later he contacted my mum, saying he was ‘fixated’ on her. So yesterday he came here and whenever he comes to Brasilia they will get together, but that’s it.
A bouquet of roses arrived for my mum. Wonder who it could be from…
In the afternoon my mother and I went to Conjunto Nacional shopping centre. Bought 2 trousers, one each. Then we went to a camelô (street vendor) to buy new sunglasses for my mum. On Wednesday (she only told me today) she was mugged in one of the underground passages. The thief, only one, took her bag, but she implored with him to keep it, so he only took the sunglasses and her watch. He pulled the glasses off her neck, they were attached like that, and hurt her neck. That’s why I never go on underground passages! We bought her new sunglasses for 12,000crz and one for me for 10,000crz, very nice. Then we went to 2001 record shop, on the way I met Andre and Fabiano on their bikes. I got Summer 85 (lots of dance songs, for 15,000!) and Sivuca for my mum (only 9,000crz because it’s old) and a cassete tape for me, for 5,500crz. I’ll put the prices on everything I buy from now on to compare them!